Wednesday, 19 October 2016

September and October Progress & News

I travelled much of September - South Africa and more of the same coming up for the rest of October - Barcelona. Not complaining but it is my excuse reason for not doing a progress report at the end of September. Given that I'll be away now for the rest of October and won't be sewing during that (other than my usual travelling handwork) I thought I'd combine the two months.

Here are my makes for September,

As a volunteer at Quilters Take Manhattan, I needed a piece of apparel made from QTM fabric (available from Spoonflower). I made this Vendor Apron, I shared it with you back in my August news and now I've worn it for a day at the event there's a change I want to make to it ready for when I write it up as a pattern.

Did you hear I won QTM Quilt Match 2016? It was fabulous fun and I'll share more about it in a blog post at some point but for now here's a pic of my with my winning quilt top.

There are 2 more Sashiko pattern designs I've finished - can't share them yet, they'll be available in the future as part of a Sashiko kit but that's all I can say for now.

Made a quilt top and it's currently on its way to Quilt Market to showcase some potential new fabrics. Can't share that project either I'm afraid as it's all hush-hush until the designer's deal is done,

Wrote a couple of tutes, though not the one's I mentioned were in the pipeline back in August, they're still in the pipeline!

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Projects in the pipeline for November include:

A quilt block blog hop with Benartex - that's all, I can hardly believe it. Maybe I'll be able to clear some of those WIPs that have been hanging around for way too long. Maybe not. Things have a habit of cropping up at the last minute and keeping me busy!

Finally, it's time to take a look how my UFO/WIP List looked at the end of August;

and let's compare it with the end of September - those last 8 columns on the right are all finished work:

Can't get over how much I'm achieving though I'd like to move more of the WIP/UFOs to the completed side rather than adding newly completed projects. I'm using the web app Trello, a digital notebook, you can read more about it here in my January Progress Report.

and here's my updated UFO/WIP list at end October 2016

I'll carry on including the list in this format too so you can click through to the blog posts and read more but I'll also include my Trello boards because these are such a great visual of my progress.

Sliced jelly roll quilt - started 2015
8 Snugglies - started 2015Sashiko/Kantha quilt - started July 20158 Point Star Quilt - started March 2016Kukulcan quilt - started May 2016
Improv Beyond The Bee quilt - started August 2016
Tea Time quilt - started September 2016
Quilt Market quilt top - started October 2016
Blackboard quilt - not yet started

To keep track of all related blog posts in one place I've created a page you can click through to and see this post and each of my monthly update reports; you can click through to it here.

Have you sworn to clear your UFOs/WIP this year? How are you going about it? Let me know if you start using the Trello app too.
Do share your ideas and progress, you might just inspire someone to do the same :D

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